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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—Maybe Kris Medlen's problem Monday afternoon was the opponent. Maybe it was a curveball that he said was "dog poop." Maybe the conditions at Champion Field were more favorable to hitters than pitchers.
Considering the pitching line for the Atlanta Braves' right-hander, it was probably all of the above. The ugly numbers: five innings, 14 hits, nine runs (all earned).
What Medlen didn't do was lose, of course. The guy who finished 2012 on a record streak of 23 starts without a loss was bailed out by his offense. The Braves pummeled Phillies starter Rodrigo Lopez for eight runs in two innings on the way to a 17-10 victory.
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Medlen even chipped in two hits to a 19-hit attack that included four homers, two by Justin Upton. On the mound, though, Medlen did not look anything like the National League's best starter, which he was for the second half of last season.
"I never had an outing like that in my life," said Medlen, who managed three scoreless innings but gave up five runs in the second and four in the fifth.
He did not sound all that bothered, though. It is, after all, spring training and he said he would have approached a regular-season start differently. For example, he said he would have thrown fewer curves in a real game but needs to get the pitch right.
As he also pointed out, "whoever has been in that uniform hasn't been too kind to me on the mound." In 23 2/3 career innings (13 games) against the Phillies, he owns an unsightly 5.32 ERA.
And he was able to find positives. For example, he was able to get his pitch count up.
"I went from throwing 49 pitches (in his last outing) to throwing 84," he said. "It was good for me to be out there and fatiguing a little bit. You need to battle through that because you're going to be fatigued in the (regular season), too."
Plus, he was told, he didn't walk anyone. "Yeah, I was going to get to that, too," he said. "It could have been (a) 3-2 count on everybody and I could have had 84 (pitches) in the first two innings."
Medlen truly wasn't offering excuses; rather, he was explaining a lousy outing. "I was crushed," he said. "It's never good to have one of those."
But he still didn't lose.
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Here is a breakdown of the Grenadier's data card. May you find it useful, and by inference be better able to decipher other unit data cards.
A full-strength squad of Grenadiers consists of 2x soldiers. Each soldier has a single Heart of health. The circular icons to the right are a symbol representing what you will look like on the field of battle.
The Launcher is the primary attack option that Grenadiers have. Let's break it down, from left to right and top to bottom.
Damage: Grenadier grenades will deal 1 or more damage on a successful hit roll. The "+" sign refers to the potential for double damage on the target hex of the shot.
Ammunition info: The Launcher has one shot. After the Launcher has fired, it MUST be reloaded in order to fire again (Reloading a weapon costs 1 Action). The reloads are, however, functionally 'infinite' within the simplified logistics system of Crux Europa.
Range: The Launcher has a range of 4 hexes (since it is an AOE attack, this is for the purposes of selecting a Target Hex). It also has the "Indirect" property, allowing a shot to be made at a hex which is not within direct line of sight. Examples include through forests or behind buildings. Realize that making Indirect attacks results in a |-1| modifier to the Hit rating.
The Attack Action: For an Action cost of 1, roll one attack (1d10) with rating |7| against a unit in the Target Hex. Then, roll another attack (this time with rating |6|), for every unit within 1 hex of the target. If there was a unit in the target hex you may roll this secondary attack against it as well.
If there is no unit in the target hex the first roll may be ignored, unless you are intending to cause some sort of effect with your shot that goes beyond damaging opponents.
Notice that some weapons have multiple attack modes, which may feature various tradeoffs of range, action cost, hit rating, ammunition usage, or other variables. Fusiliers are a good example as they can fire off quick snap shots for only Half of an action, keeping the pressure on opponents but at the expense of a rather low Hit rating. Lanciers may choose to double-fire their Lances (expending a full Reload's worth of ammunition in one turn) or more carefully conserve ammunition with single shots in a round. Other examples will appear.
This is the notation for the Specialty Ammunition that the unit has. Check the Grenadier's unit data card (see the Original Post) for full details.
On off-turns when they aren't firing their Launchers, Grenadiers have a back-up weapon: the Sub-machine gun. We'll skim this a little since we covered Launchers in-depth above.
The SMG causes 1 Damage with every successful hit. It may only be fired Twice in a battle, then cannot be fired again (not enough room for spare magazines with all of those explosives you're carrying). Notice that it does not require any Reloads between uses, however. The Range is 3, with the Ballistic property. Ballistic weapons (which are the overwhelming majority of weapons in Crux Europa) may fire beyond their listed range, at a penalty of |-1| Hit rating for every 1 extra Hex of distance.
The Action cost for the Burst attack (the only attack mode the SMG has) is 1. Roll 3d10. For every roll of |4| or less, a hit is scored... obviously various factors may influence this Hit rating positively or negatively.
Brace for Impact: this is a Damage Reduction ability that the Grenadier unit has. The lack of an Action Cost indicates that this ability is probably a passive one. See the unit rules clarification/data card for more info.
Each Grenadier soldier has 1 Action. Remember though, there are TWO Grenadiers in a full-strength squad! This means you have 2 Actions to manage every turn, as well as two Launchers and two SMGs to track ammunition usage! Well, until one of you dies.
The Grenadier squad may normally Move 4 hexes in a turn. You may move then take an action, take an action then move, move a few hexes then take actions then move the rest of your hexes, or any permutation of those activities that your sick, depraved minds may imagine. Environment (dense forests, crumbling ruins) or Actions you take (such as the ubiquitous Run) can and will change your Movement value from turn to turn.
Sit down, because I'm about to blow your mind: Soldiers in a squad can each do different things with their Actions. They need to stick together if they have a chance at surviving though, so no Moving off on separate paths. Your fireteam partner(s) are your friends out there. Hold your buddy close, OK?
Before the question is asked (it has yet to come up but it probably will), soldiers in a squad may NOT swap weaponry (ie. one soldier reloading a Launcher, then the other shooting that same Launcher). This is normally not allowed, however crew-served weapons such as heavy machine gun emplacements or mortars will work differently and allow actions from multiple sources to affect them in the same turn. You don't need to worry about that right now.


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Spring Cutback is a monumental task – one that took us 1,200 hours to complete last year. This year, we have twice as much work to do. The High Line doubled in length when the new section opened last June, giving us one mile of parkland with more than 100,000 plants to prepare for spring this year.
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My name is Trevor and I am agnostic. I say that because i have no significant amount of knowledge about any religion. I am 20 years old and, for about the last five or six years i have been really looking into science and evolution. My family members are all your average christians. They have gone their entire lives truly believing there is a god up in the clouds somewhere. These very people are those who nearly sucked me into a fantasy world that would have only ended in disappointment (hens the title). I remember sitting in my room as a very young and immature child thinking that god was real just because my mom and dad said he was. I soon realized that my parents are stupid. Not academically unable, but from a different generation that thought and acted in an entirely different way than this generation does. Same with my parents' parents, and their parents, etc. That is just how it works in our ever-so-changing world. When I realized this it got me thinking; There is ONE thing that has been passed down through all of these generations, ONE thing that has created intense controversy all over the world, ONE thing that has forcefully obtained the deceptive capabilities against man as that of a cougar in a room full of sleeping infants, that one thing is religion. It is almost as if the THOUSANDS of years that men in power have been using religion to control the people of this earth have been brainwashing those very same people!!! Oh my Ala it's a new breakthrough.
I actually found myself awake all night pondering what could really be out there. The one and only logical answer I could come up with: I will just have to find out myself.
If nothing else I'm proud of my terrible paragraph formation. 100% open for video chat discussions! Have a great day everyone!
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Congrats on getting away before it was too late. You are free :)
Lol. Thank you. And you are correct I am most definitely far more free than I would be had I not realized what was going on. Same goes for all of us I suppose.
Agnosticism is a perfectly fine way of percieving things. Atheism is an intense form of Agnosticism. IMO, we (atheists) are all agnostic, but some are more certain than others that there is ultimately no creator of any kind. most here find themselves in that camp, but you are free to choose your own level of certainty. it certainly beat wasting your time on religion, so welcome to the club!
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AS A FRESHMAN (2010-2011): (XC) Finished in 26th place in the USF Invitational … ran a time of 18:28 during the Riverside Invitational … finished in 114th place and 3rd on the team in the Stanford Invitational running a time of 23:31 … competed in the Gator Invitational finishing in 8th place and 2nd on the team with a time of 22:59 … ran a time of 18:04 in the Bronco Invitational … during the WCC Championships, Sibole ran a time of 23:21 finishing 41st … ran a time of 22:59 in the NCAA West Regional Championships finishing in 171st place. (TRACK) Finished 8th in the 800m with a time of 2:24:96 and ran in the 4x400m relay that placing 5th in 4:10:78 @ Cal State Stanislaus 3/5/11…Ran a PR in the 1500m with 4:51:61 @UC Davis Aggie Open 3/12/11…Competed for a PR and 13th in the 1500m in 4:44:69 and ran a seasonal best, 2:21:69 in the 800m @ San Francisco State 3/25/11… Ran a PR in the 5000m with 18:16:19 and was 2nd overall @ San Francisco State 4/2/11…Placed 4th overall in the 800m with 2:18:02 as well as 3rd and a lifetime best in the 1500m with 4:43:66 @ Chico State 4/8-9/11…Earned 2nd overall in the 1500m with a time of 4:44:74 @ Woody Wilson Invitational, UC Davis 4/16/11…Placed 1st in her heat in the 1500m and earned a PR of 4:42:80 @ Brutus Hamilton Invitational, CAL 4/22/11...Ran in the WCC Invitational and ran a lifetime PR of 4:38:95 in the 1500m finishing 10th 5/14/11.
Cross Country: 18:04.3 in the 5k (2010 - SCU
Bronco Invite); 22:59 in the 6k (2010 - NCAA West Regionals
Track: 2:18:02 in the 800m (2011 - Chico State Distance Carnival); 4:38:95 in the 1500m (2011 - WCC Championship); 18:16:19 in the 5k (2011 - Johnny Mathis Invite)
High School: Allie just completed her outstanding high school track career by winning two Oregon State 4A track titles in June. Allie won the 3000m race in a PR 10:29 and the 800m in 2:16. High school coaches were Cathie Twomey and Chase Wells.
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Yosemite National Park will celebrate the 96th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS) by holding a series of activities focused on "What NPS Rangers do" on Saturday, Aug. 25.
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The Fatosphere is abuzz with outrage over the latest incoherent ramblings of Meredith "MeMe" Roth, specifically an outlandish analogy she made in The Guardian between rape and overeating, something she presumes all fat people do. SP extraordinaire SweetMachine nicely summed up the sheer ridiculousness and callousness of the comparison, and other bloggers have also addressed the issue. Roth's mental instabilities and fatphobia are readily apparent and have been covered well by others, so I don't want to rehash that here. What I want to add to the conversation are my own personal experiences with Roth that lead me to believe she has serious disordered eating issues and the inflated and misleading representations of her so-called professional expertise that grants her a national platform upon which to project those neuroses.
Monique from BFD and I appeared with Roth in early 2008 on Fox's The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. I knew of Roth before this show and how monomaniacal she is about her cause, but silly me, I wanted to take the high road. In the greenroom before taping, I approached her, introduced myself (she didn't reciprocate) and extended my hand. She appeared almost afraid to touch me (understandably as fat is contagious) and finally limply shook my fingers. I thanked her for coming on the show with us, to which she replied snottily, "Always glad to talk about the issue." I realized then how combative she already was, so I replied "As are we" and walked away. Watch clips from the show here and/or check out Paul's excellent two-part analysis of it.
After the show and a post-show greenroom recorded interview, I approached Roth again with the intention of following up on some of the things brought up in the latter interview. Believe it or not, she and I actually share some common interests, namely a concern for processed ingredients and chemicals in foods, especially those served in school lunch programs. I also wanted to explain to her that the way she comes across — offensive, abusive, shrill– isn't likely to win her any supporters. I never got the chance, maybe because on the show I "made that skinny woman look stupid," as my 23-year-old brother told me. Instead Roth started shouting about all the ugly things said about her the internet, somehow conflating me with the kinds of people who, it appears, regularly send her death threats. (Disclaimer: While I have called Roth's actions "vile" and questioned her mental health, I have never personally attacked her on this site. My comments here have always been in reference to the complacent absurdity of her actions and campaigns. In fact, I even asked readers to refrain from using thin-bashing language in their comments. And as a Buddhist pacifist, I don't support violence in any form.)
Roth then tried to explain that we fat people — you know, the same fat people she accuses of being child abusers, unproductive workers, drug addicts, threats to national security and now likens to rape victims — shouldn't take her anti-obesity rhetoric so personally. Yes, we fat people are just waaaayyy too sensitive. At some point during her harangue, I pointed out to Roth that she doesn't have a professional medical background — she has a B.A. in journalism and a career in public relations — to which she hotly began rattling off a list of supposed credentials (more on this in a minute). I interrupted her and said, "But those aren't medical degrees," which made her even angrier. She then started screaming, "You think it's easy for me? I have an obese family. I have to work very hard to look like this!"
This, to me, completely explained the enigma that is MeMe Roth. It explained the hatred. The self-loathing. The strident, nasty tone. Why she thinks fat is ugly. People like Roth have to go to extreme measures to justify why it is they do what they do in order to look like they do. If fat people were not so hated, then Roth would have no justification for why she has to "work so hard" to remain thin. At that moment, she seemed like such an embittered, lonely, and obsessed woman that I felt as if I was playing a competitive round of Jeopardy with a three-year-old. Roth then claimed that fat acceptance bloggers distort her words, so I offered to feature her as a guest blogger on my site so that she could clear any misconceptions she feels we have about her. She made some lame excuse about her car and literally ran away from me and that was that. On our way out, my husband said he felt sorry for her and I agreed. I feel incredibly sorry for her, in fact, but I feel more sorry for all the people she hurts.
So, why do news organizations continue to trot out Roth as a "guest expert" on the subjects of obesity and nutrition? Besides being blonde, thin and pretty in a Ann Coulter'ish sort of way, the fact that Roth appears most regularly on Fox News should give some indication as to her legitimacy in being labeled an expert. But Roth is also tapped because of the savvy ways the seasoned marketing flack has styled and aggrandized herself as a anti-obesity crusader and president of a national "advocacy group." Cases in point:
Misrepresentation #1: The Guardian story also mentions that Roth now runs a private nutrition counseling business — it mercifully isn't linked to in the story, but you can find it here. Roth's qualifications in counseling others on healthy eating appear to come solely from a certificate issued by the Institute of Integrative Health based in New York, a course Roth was projected to complete last June. Billing itself as the "world's largest nutrition school," the institute offers a part-time, eight-month course after which students emerge somehow qualified to practice as "health counselors." They can also qualify for "board certification" by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, a misleading endorsement given that the AADP is not recognized or approved by the U.S. Department of Education and is therefore an unaccredited agency.
So, does eight months of weekend classes learning about the Zone, Blood Match and Atkins diets really qualify Roth as an "expert"? Not likely, suggests Dr. Stephen Barrett — a real expert — of the acclaimed website Credential Watch:
The IIN program is open to anyone who is willing to attend and pay tuition. No formal training or nutrition-related knowledge is required…. IIN itself is not accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Office of Education…
Their training is certainly not based on scientific nutrition as emphasized in the degree programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education. That generally takes 4-7 years and includes basic sciences, dietetics, and closely supervised work with many clients. IIN provides almost none of this.
I personally would not trust someone who lacks scientific training to tailor diets based on dietary needs or who relies on IIN's teachings to counsel patients… [IIN founder Joshua] Rosenthal's approach might inspire some people to improve their diet by moving closer to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. However, they may also absorb misconceptions about diet, health, and disease that will ultimately harm them.
Barrett also adds that IIN's program "appears to be to enable students to find what dietary and activity strategies work best for them and then do the same for clients," adding that it "teaches—in effect—to use your own experience to inspire others." The Guardian's Gaby Wood called Roth out on her own eating habits, pressing a reticent Roth about what she eats for breakfast (she doesn't) and for lunch (also debatable). Roth tried to dodge the questions but finally fessed up to having not eaten ANYTHING that day despite it being 3:30 in the afternoon, that she refuses to eat before getting in a four-mile run every day and intimated that she is the "master" of finding ways to meet people that do not involve food. If these are the kind of dietary habits she's "inspiring" in others, god help her clients.
Misrepresentation #2: On Roth's website, she twice writes that the institute is partnered with Columbia University's Teacher's College. Domain registration shows that her domain was created (first registered) on Feb. 8, 2008. Columbia University severed its ties with IIN at least a month earlier.
Misrepresentation #3: National Action Against Obesity calls itself "a non-partisan, all-volunteer advocacy group." Roth is further identified in this New York Times story as "president of an nonprofit organization" — the Times, I'm sure, fact-checked this with her prior to publication. The "organization" she heads is actually a one-woman crusade and is not recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-deductible charity. Guidestar, which maintains a database of 1.8 million federally recognized nonprofit organizations and charities, also has no listing for NAAO. Just to be sure, I checked the official charity registries of three states: New Jersey, where Roth lived several years ago; New York, where she calls home now; and Pennsylvania, where her website appears to be registered to her in-law's address. None listed NAAO as a registered nonprofit. In multiple press releases issued by Roth, she says that her organization "works independently and as a consultancy." Which is it, Ms. Roth? Are you a paid consultant or a volunteer? An advocacy group or an independent?
MeMe Roth is not part of the "solution"; she's part of the problem. In fact, she encapsulates perfectly our dangerous national obsessions with food, body image and puritan ideas about health. For example: On my wedding day I looked beautiful and my thoughts lie more so on my new husband, our life together and please-to-god don't let me trip in these damn strappy heels. Roth's thoughts lie elsewhere. From her website:
…I come from a long line of obesity. Growing up, I always knew I'd be fat. After seeing my obese family on my wedding day, the groomsmen wagered how long until the bride would be fat too. Sounds cruel? It's the same thing everyone in the church was thinking…including me.
From the Guardian story:
When I was in kindergarten," [Roth] recalls, "no one taught me to be ashamed of obesity, but the day, on my birthday, that my mother was to bring cupcakes to my class, I put my head on the table because I knew that within minutes my mother would be there and everyone was going to know that my mother was fat. I felt ashamed. I was grateful that down the block there was another mother who was fatter than my mother."
And again, in this ELLE feature on her (which also mentions The-F-Word):
At 5'6″ [Roth] keeps her weight between 120 and 125 pounds [one to two points away from being considered underweight]. She weighs herself every day and says, "The alarms sound when I hit 125!" She also exercises for at least 45 minutes every single day, rain or shine, usually by running four miles and doing some strength work, but since she never knows exactly what time she's going to squeeze it in, she works in her gym clothes so that she'll be ready to spring into action.
She consistently shuns sweets such as birthday cake and ice cream, "sixes, sevens" on her scale of desirability, things she can do without, so that once or twice a year, she can indulge in the things she absolutely adores, her "tens," such as tiramisu, or her favorite handmade chocolate-coconut Easter eggs, or even, gasp, a Coke…
Does this sound like a well-functioning woman with a healthy relationship with food and body? Keep in mind: This is the same woman who would rather that I be thin and anorexic than overweight and healthy. Food may be the enemy for MeMe Roth, but it doesn't have to be mine — or yours.


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MusicGremlin/The Gremlin
July 31, 2006
If the iPod had Wi-Fi built in and didn't need iTunes, it would probably be the Gremlin.
Model: MG1000
Price: $299.99 (MSRP)
Pros: Downloads music over a WLAN, no PC required; built-in FM radio
Cons: Doesn't support WPA encryption; no equalizer; Web site doesn't support Firefox
If music is at all important to you, you probably keep an iPod or another portable music device within close reach to satisfy your musical cravings. But if downloading music on your PC and then synchronizing it with your portable device seems oh so 2002, you might want to take a look at MusicGremlin.
In the context of a technology product, the word gremlin has a decidedly negative connotation as the malevolent and ethereal force behind a variety of maddening system problems. The gremlin we're talking about here, though, uses its powers for good: instead of requiring a PC as an intermediary, MusicGremlin lets you download music to a portable device (which they call the Gremlin) directly from that series of tubes we know as the Internet all via built-in 802.11b Wi-Fi.
The $299.99 Gremin, clad in glossy black plastic, measures 4.0 x 2.4 x 0.8 (HWD, in inches). It's not a large device, but it is somewhat thicker than most digital music players (including a 60GB iPod). Weight is another matter, though: just looking at it, you'd think the Gremlin was a lot heavier than the 4.2 ounces with which it tips the scales. It feels feather-light.
The Gremlin sports 8GB of storage capacity courtesy of its internal hard drive. And it's quiet it doesn't exhibit the faint hum or vibration you typically get with hard drive based devices. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear it used flash memory. Another nice feature of the unit is a bright two-inch color LCD display. Although its 220 x 176 resolution is a bit low by the standards of most portable devices these days (again, think the current video iPod), it's more than sufficient to clearly display the Gremlin's menus.
You navigate those menus with a large four-way directional pad surrounding an action button, but the Gremlin puts play/pause, rewind/fast-forward and volume buttons on the right side of the unit. I didn't mind the unconventional location of these controls, but left-handed users might find their placement awkward. The power button -- which can also lock the controls -- is on the opposite side of the device. The Gremlin comes with earbuds that plug into the top of the unit, while the bottom sports line-in and USB 2.0 ports along with a jack for the included AC adapter.
That adapter charges the Gremlin's internal rechargeable battery, which the company says will last 10 hours (when Wi-Fi isn't being used). We got around 7 hours out of it with Wi-Fi turned on a significant portion of the time. The battery, which is not user-serviceable, takes about two hours to recharge from dry (it might take less if the Gremlin's backlight didn't remain on while charging, which it does, even if the unit is switched off).
Account Setup
Before you can use your Gremlin, you need to first register the device and create an account, which you can do at the company's Web site (www.musicgremlin.com) or via the device itself. The company's online music store, MusicGremlin Direct, gives you two purchase options: set up an unlimited download account for $14.99 per month, or opt to buy music a la carte, usually at $.99 per track. If you want to retain permanent ownership of a downloaded song, you must choose the a la carte option and pay the a la carte price for a song even if you're on the monthly plan -- otherwise, you'll have access to it only as long as you're a MusicGremlin subscriber.
Accessing Wireless Networks
Connecting the Gremlin to a wireless network is pretty straightforward. The most time-consuming part is entering an encryption key via the directional keys, which is always tedious whenever you don't have the benefit of a keyboard. Unfortunately, the Gremlin doesn't support WPA encryption (only WEP). It's hard to believe that years after WPA became ubiquitous there are still wireless media devices coming out that don't support it (sadly, the Gremlin is hardly alone).
A green icon lights up over the left corner of the display to remind you that you're successfully connected. You can disable the wireless connection to save battery power when you're not downloading music.
The Gremlin's lack of WPA support is irksome, but it probably won't matter much if you plan to use the device mainly on unencrypted networks and free hotspots. If you use WPA at home, you'll have to download music to your PC first via the MusicGremlin Web site and then transfer it to your MusicGremlin.
One caveat: although we could browse for music using Firefox, you need Internet Explorer in order to preview or download any tunes on the MusiGremlin.com site.
Finding, Downloading and Playing Music
Of course, the entire point of the Gremlin is to get music without using a PC, and on that front the device does a pretty good job. In general, the Gremlin's interface is easy to work with, but it would benefit from a pair of soft keys (like the kind you find in most PDAs and mobile phones) to move between features with a bit less menu traversal.
MusicGremlin Direct boasts 2 million tracks available for purchase (just music -- no books or other audio content), and you can search directly from the Gremlin by artist, track, album or genre. Using up and down direction keys obviously isn't the ideal way to enter alphanumeric characters for searches, but it doesn't take long to get the hang of it well enough to be efficient, if not adept.
When you find something you want to download, pressing the action button will add it to the Gremlin's Download Manager queue. Although you can preview songs before buying from a PC, you unfortunately can't do the same thing from the Gremlin. You can reorder or remove individual items in your queue at any time, and the Gremlin will automatically download your items whenever it finds itself connected to a network.
The Gremlin doesn't have to be connected to a wireless network for you to search for songs or add them to your queue. This also makes the search process instantly responsive, since the data is all local on the unit. If it's been a while since you've been online, the Gremlin may insist on downloading the most recent list of available music before letting you search.
In addition to searching for specific tracks or albums, you can also browse through a few dozen Gremlists -- themed playlists that MusicGremlin creates and regularly updates. When you select a Gremlist, its contents are automatically added to your download queue. These are an all-or-nothing proposition, however: you can't pick and choose individual tracks to download from a Gremlist.
The Gremlin can play either purchased audio or your own tracks in either MP3 or WMA format (including DRM-protected Windows Media files, which is what you get when you purchase music from MusicGremlin Direct). On your PC, you can use Windows Media Player 10 (which requires Windows XP) to play your music and synchronize with your Gremlin using the included USB cable.
Sound quality from the included ear buds is quite good, but unlike many portable music devices, the Gremlin doesn't include an equalizer for you to fine-tune the sound for different music types. It does include an FM radio that gets good reception (the earbud cable serves as the antenna).
Music Sharing
Should you ever grow weary of listening to your own music collection, the Gremlin gives you a number of other options. Perhaps the most interesting is its community feature, which lets Gremlin users publish their music libraries to a central directory that other Gremlin users can browse and access via wireless. (You must be a monthly subscriber to use this feature.)
If there happen to be other Gremlins nearby, you can choose to connect to them via an ad-hoc wireless link to exchange content. In this mode, however, you can't play any of the songs you've acquired until you first connect to MusicGremlin Direct to obtain the appropriate licenses.
If you prefer to keep your tunes to yourself, you can turn off the community features on your Gremlin, or choose to only share information with specific users you've added to a buddy list.
It's got a few weaknesses, but MusicGremlin nevertheless manages to be a fairly innovative device/service combo that's an interesting alternative to a conventional PC-centric music player. The company says WPA support and an equalizer will be available as a free upgrade sometime in the fall.
If you like the idea of sharing music with others or just being able to download new music when you're nowhere near your computer, you'll find the MusicGremlin worth your consideration.


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Lone Star, ACA (Lone Star Ag Credit) appreciates the communities they live and work in and wanted to find a way to give back to those communities that would represent Agriculture. In the month of October, Lone Star will hold a canned food drive at all of their branch locations, but with a competitive twist. Each branch is in the running to also receive a $100 check to go towards their pantry of choice if they collect the most food. The Sweetwater office will be collecting for Goodfellows. All donations can be made at Lone Star Ag Credit, 400 East 3rd Street in Sweetwater by Oct. 31. "We were excited when we heard about the food drive. What a great way to bring our community together and represent Agriculture at the same time," states Tim Weldon, with Lone Star. "Come join us and be a part of this worthy project!"For more than 90 years, Lone Star Ag Credit has been a reliable source of financing for Rural America. Lone Star Ag Credit is a customer-owned cooperative that provides courteous, accurate service through a well-trained, highly motivated staff. Lone Star Ag Credit offers a wide variety of loan programs at competitive rates including agricultural and recreational real estate, rural homes, operating, equipment, livestock and agribusiness loans. Lone Star Ag Credit's administrative offices are located in Fort Worth with credit offices located in Sweetwater, Abilene, Stephenville, Weatherford, Cleburne, Denton, Sherman, Paris and New Boston. For more information, visit www.LoneStarAgCredit.com.


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It's that time of year when, for one gloriously amped evening, healthcare agencies switch focus from brands to bands and strut their musical talents on the big stage.
Pharmapalooza, the industry's annual "battle of the bands" contest, returns to B.B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 West 42 Street, New York) on Wednesday, November 6th at 7pm.
As in previous years, all proceeds from the event, which is hosted by New York-based CDM Group, will benefit The Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Last year's event raised more than $100,000.
This year's line-up includes ensembles from AbelsonTaylor ("Hard to Swallow"), Grey Healthcare Group ("Pharma's Daughter"), Publicis Kaplan Thaler ("Hot Flash"), CDMi ("Urge to Merge") and CDM Princeton ("The Jughandles").
Bringing home the trophy last year was CDMiConnect collective "Licensed to Heal" with a rousing tribute set to recently deceased Beastie Boys' legend, Adam Yauch.
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I am in favour of a warning and even a bit more (work for moderators)
When such a post in gibberish is seen, answer with a request to translete and in the meantime block the post util 'translated' decently.
i'm a regular reader of posts on the reactos forum, where many non-english-speaking europeans that are experts on ros help people with technical questions. no one gives them a hard time for bad english, so the only question in my mind is whether you want to penalize people that do it on purpose.
as someone that doesn't bother to capitalize anything when typing (i think it's a waste personally... BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT THIS) everyone has the choice whether to ignore me or read my posts. this is a volunteer forum, no one here is paid to help people.
like most people, i find an overabundance of aol-speak pretty irritating, but you can be irritated about all kinds of things if you want to be. if you are already "tolerating" the true blessing of an international forum, with people speaking varying degrees of english, why make an example out of anyone?
help who you can help easily, and go out of your way for the people you want to go out of your way for, and leave everyone else alone, unless they do something to you. you're a volunteer, no one is putting you out. why demand people meet your expectations for english speaking, when no one is making you read anything they say? of course what i used to hear was "you're in america! speak english!" and i always thought it was pretty obnoxious. "no aol speak, for god's sake!" is a step up from there, but it doesn't make a lot more sense to me, or seem to be all that different.
after all, technically anyone can learn, and use, proper english. i don't see why i would force that here, or anywhere else. typing doesn't come easily to all of us, and i'd rather see people typing in a way they can handle than thinking computers are useless for communication. as they get more proficient, they will probably type better- unless they think everyone online is a snob and just go back to worshiping cable tv. i'm glad there are more people online than ever- despite the nominal aesthetic comprimises.
on the other hand, on the rare occasion that someone is having trouble with a sms message on here, and they'd like a translation, i'm happy to help when i can. just say "hey, amish... i don't wanna read this one!" and i hope the lack of caps in the translation won't put you out too much.
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I find this slang much more difficult to understand than the english of 15 year old vietname users (which has grammatical mistakes of course, but is astonishingly good).
I really like to help the vietnamese phantrongnghia, because he undertakes some efforts trying to make it easy for me, to understand what he wants.
I even use the dictionary, if he uses a "wrong" word, to understand what he intentionally meant.
But if someone throws in an unmotivated manner some hard to understand words (gangsta-slang), I find it quite unpolite especially concerning non-native english speaking guys like me.
So I usually ignore such messages, and don't waste my time trying to understand them.
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I wholly agree with you. I earned my engineering degree 35 years ago. I never had the need to to use a type weriter since we were required to PRINT our reports like in engineering drawings and that too with pencil. So the first time I sat at the keyboard was in front of a PC. I am no great typist either.
I can accept sms type of short cuts for characters like y, r, u, 2, b4, u, y, b, 4 which sound close to or same as the words they replace. But some of the short cuts/abbreviations are atrocious.
I remember times when the charge for a telegram was based on number of words under 6 characters or part thereof. One did tend to cut cost but sounds ridiculous in today's times.
I can quite understand the difficulties of people whose entire education was in their native language. It would be like greek or latin to me. So one need only try and help them in difficulties if so inclined, otherwise keep away from the topic.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators on Tuesday welcomed a move by the director of national intelligence to snuff out leaks of classified information but insisted that a special counsel is needed to investigate the Obama administration and recent disclosures.
Four lawmakers, including Obama's 2008 GOP presidential rival John McCain, acknowledged that Americans were paying little attention to the issue, with immigration and health care drawing most of the focus. They held a news conference and released a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder renewing their weeks-old call for the appointment of an independent investigator. Republicans argue that the leaks were deliberate to enhance the president's record on national security as he seeks a second term.
"This administration cannot be trusted to investigate itself," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters.
Holder has appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a Justice Department inquiry into who leaked information about U.S. involvement in cyber-attacks on Iran and an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound flight. Holder has resisted calls for a special counsel, telling lawmakers recently that the two attorneys, Ron Machen and Rod Rosenstein, are experienced, independent and thorough.
To stem the leaks, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper announced two new steps on Monday. He said a question related to unauthorized disclosure of classified information would be added to the polygraph test used by intelligence agencies. He also said the inspector general for the intelligence community would lead any independent investigations that the Justice Department declines.
"That's to some degree closing the barn door," McCain said. "I think it's laudable that he has taken that step, but the fact is we have to find out how this happened and who did it."
The Republicans suggested that a congressional investigation may be warranted. Cornyn said he spoke to Sens, Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, the top members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, about a possible inquiry.
In the letter, at least 31 Republican senators say the leaks have risked national security as well as the lives of U.S. citizens and allies. They said that based on media reports, there could be many sources for the leaks within the administration.
The GOP lawmakers wrote that the inquiry by the two U.S. attorneys "does not ensure a full and thorough investigation free of influence. The U.S. attorneys are under your personal supervision. An outside special counsel, with the appropriate independence and authority, would ensure that the investigation remains untainted by even the appearance of politics or undue influence."
The investigation is just under way, but in an unusual step the lawmakers singled out by name national security adviser Thomas Donilon, citing various media reports. Asked about the mention of Donilon, McCain said, "I'm not ready to indict someone until the investigation is complete."


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Most of the time, the stars that form a "connect-the-dots" pattern in the sky aren't related to each other -- they just happen to line up in the same direction in our sky.
One exception is the five stars in the middle of the Big Dipper -- Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phad, and Merak. They're all about the same distance from Earth -- about 80 light-years. And they're moving in the same direction and at about the same speed. What's more, a lot of other stars in that region of the sky are moving along with them.
All of these stars are members of the Ursa Major Moving Group -- Ursa Major because that's the constellation to which the Big Dipper belongs.
All of these stars were probably born about 500 million years ago, from a single vast cloud of gas and dust. They formed a large star cluster. As they orbited the center of the Milky Way galaxy, though, the cluster was slowly pulled apart. Stars closer to the center of the Milky Way moved a little faster than those farther away, stretching the cluster into a long streamer of stars.
Today, the stars are too widely spread to form a cluster -- their gravity no longer binds them to one another. But not enough time has passed to disperse them through the galaxy. So the stars still move through the galaxy in the same way -- forming a wide but rapidly spreading group.
The two stars at the ends of the Big Dipper aren't members of the group, so they go their own way.
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Timothy Rose, PhD: Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. The Rose Lab focuses on the role of the Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpes virus and related simian viruses in the etiology of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and other AIDS-related malignancies.
Current projects include the identification and characterization of cellular receptors mediating viral infection, the comparative analysis of KSHV and its simian homologs and their role in tumor induction in association with HIV-induced immunosuppression, the characterization of latency and the activating switch to herpesvirus replication, and the development of diagnostic tests for novel viruses.
Our research is focused on herpesviruses implicated in cellular transformation and tumor induction, and in the study of host and viral proteins and cytokines which mediate these effects. In particular, we are studying the viral etiology of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and other AIDS-related malignancies with regards to the interactions between viruses (retroviruses and herpesviruses) and cytokines in virus activation and tumor induction. We have discovered and are characterizing a new herpesvirus, retroperitoneal fibromatosis herpesvirus (RFHV), which is a homolog of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) in two macaque species (Rose et al., 1997; Schultz et al., 2000;). The macaque viruses are associated with a Kaposi's sarcoma-like malignancy, called retroperitoneal fibromatosis (RF) (Bruce et al., 2006), which like AIDS-KS is associated with a retrovirus infection. RF occurs in conjunction with simian AIDS (SAIDS) caused by infection with simian retrovirus 2 (SRV2) or the simian homolog of HIV, SIV (Bielefeldt-Ohmann et al., 2005). We have identified a second lineage of KSHV-like rhadinoviruses in macaques and are studying its role in RF and other macaque tumors (Schultz et al., 2000; Bruce et al., 2005). We have recently identified the strain of SRV2 associated with SAIDS-RF in the Washington National Primate Research Center (Staheli et al., 2006) and are studying its role in rhadinovirus activation and tumor induction. Ongoing projects include the cloning and sequence analysis of the genome of the new macaque herpesvirus (Rose et al., 2003), the search for transformation- and latency-related genes (Burnside et al., 2006) and cytokine inducing genes in these viruses, and the development of the macaque system as an animal model for studying KS in humans. We also identified a cellular entry receptor for KSHV and are studying virus-cell interactions through the virion glycoprotein B using confocal microscopy and cellular biology approaches, (Garrigues et al., 2008). We developed a novel technique using consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers (CODEHOP) for the identification of distantly related genes (Rose et al., 1998; Rose et al., 2003), and have used this technique to discover the macaque herpesviruses described above, as well as to identify other novel retroviruses (Wilson et al., 1998; Osterhaus et al., 1999) and herpesviruses (Rose, 2005). We have developed an interactive software program and web site for the design of CODEHOP PCR primers for the identification of distantly related genes (iCODEHOP). We are working closely with the Washington National Primate Research Center to identify new pathogens infecting primates maintained at the Center, and are developing CODEHOP PCR assays to detect novel primate virus species. Finally, we have a strong interest in bioinformatics and have developed a "Biological Information Resource" for students and researchers at the University of Washington. For this resource, sequence analysis software has been developed and DNA and protein databases are maintained for bioinformatics research. We offer a graduate level course in "Bioinformatics and Gene Sequence Analysis"(PABIO/MEBI/PHG 536) for students wishing to further their knowledge and expertise in this field. Our research approaches include virology, using both in vitro and in vivo models, cellular biology, studying signaling and protein interactions, protein chemistry, studying functions of recombinantly expressed proteins and protein mutations, microscopy, using a dedicated confocal microscope, molecular biology, for viral pathogen identification and characterization and bioinformatics, for viral gene and genome analysis.
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A Menlo Park police detective arrested in Sunnyvale after being caught naked in a Motel 6 with a prostitute is still working for the city's law enforcement department.
According to an incident report from the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, officers went to the motel at 806 W. Ahwanee Ave. at about 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2011, to conduct a probation warrant search on 32-year-old Natalia Ramirez. When police opened the door, they found Ramirez dressed in a black cat suit with several rolled-up $20 bills tucked into her cleavage.
Inside the bathroom, they found Menlo Park police Officer Jeffrey Kenneth Vasquez unclothed and "on his knees on the bathroom floor," according to the report, which does not say what the 48-year-old man was doing other than to note it did not appear he was trying to destroy contraband.
Vasquez eventually told Sunnyvale police he's a Menlo Park officer, said he was there for sex and said he had found Ramirez on My Redbook, a website commonly used to advertise sexual services. Ramirez confirmed she was there as a prostitute, according to the police report.
The Menlo Park detective said he was on duty when he went to Sunnyvale to serve a subpoena and had an "hour to kill" because the person he was trying to serve wasn't home yet, according to the police report. It was not the first time he had solicited a prostitute for sex, he told the officers.
Throughout the incident, "Vasquez was remorseful and
fully cooperated with the investigation," according to the report. Asked by one officer why he would call a prostitute, Vasquez initially replied he didn't know, but a minute later said he was divorced and his mother had recently died.
"I feel like a loser," he told another officer.
According to the police report, Vasquez was released into the custody of two Menlo Park Police Department officers: Watch Commander Tim Brackett and internal affairs Sgt. Matt Brackett.
Charged with misdemeanor solicitation, Vasquez pleaded not guilty in June 2011 and by July his case was dismissed because the officer who interviewed Ramirez was unable to testify in court, according to Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Rob Baker, who supervised the case.
"The investigator's wife was extremely ill," Baker said. "I wasn't going to ask a person who was going through that to come to court and deal with a misdemeanor situation."
Baker said the case wasn't postponed because Ramirez had not waived her right to a speedy trial. Knowing that the Sunnyvale officer wasn't available to testify, Vasquez's attorney, William Rapoport, filed to have his client's case dismissed.
Baker said he wanted to prosecute both cases, but when Ramirez "got the benefit" of having her case dismissed, it "didn't sit well" with him to continue to go after Vasquez.
Officials from Menlo Park would not confirm that Vasquez had been arrested or discuss any disciplinary measures that may have been taken against him for the alleged crime.
According to The Almanac, a local print and online news outlet, Menlo Park had to reinstate the officer after he challenged the city's undisclosed disciplinary action against him. An arbitrator sided with Vasquez, according to a conversation an Almanac reporter overheard between City Manager Alex McIntyre and former city manager Glen Rojas while sitting near the men at a table in the Menlo Hub restaurant. McIntyre and Rojas did not identify Vasquez by name, but the Almanac reporter was able to track down the arrest information using information from the conversation about the officer's gender and tenure with the police department.
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Logging can be an invaluable tool during all stages of software development right from development to deployment/production. Good use of logging enables you to record and report errors, maintain audit trials, gather app usage statistics and gather performance benchmarks. This article discusses best practices to be following when using logging in your software. The Crypto Logger logging framework is used while discussing these best practices.
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Logging output should make sense to the people who will view/Analyze the logs. For example, logging information targeted at developers will typically be quite different from that targeted at end-users which in turn will be different from that targeted at system-administrators. For example, end users are likely to have no use for your logs if you output messages like "Heap error in function ABC" or "Lock cannot be acquired for polling". Generating the correct type of logging info is important so that the log information can actually be used and understood by the consumers of the logs.
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Loggers typically provide multiple log levels using which messages can be logged. Each level indicates a different level of severity and/or detail. Typical levels defined are Debug, Info, Warning, Error and Fatal. It is important that all the members of your team agree beforehand on the type of messages to be used with each log level. This is necessary so that a log generated during a routine run of the software does not get flooded with Debug log messages. Similarly, important information which should have the Warning, Error or Fatal levels should not be logged using the Debug or Info levels. Since there are no hard and fast rules for what constitutes the informational detail and/or severity associated with each level, it is upto your team to decide this beforehand.
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Logging code is not free - it increases the size of your code and your compiled binaries. Further, the logging code itself consumes processor time to run. Logging code also requires maintenance just like any other code. Keep these factors in mind when deciding how much and what type of data to log. You should not log the code execution progress after each line of code, nor should you produce useless logs contain very little info like "Failure!". Use your judgment when deciding the quantity and quality of data to log that will provide useful information when it actually comes time to view and Analyze the logs to resolve issues or gather statistics.
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Typically, you should ship production apps that are configured (via external configuration files) to only output Info, Warning, Error Or Fatal log messages. Only if the software encounters a problem should it be configured (again, via a configuration file) to output Debug level log messages which can help in trouble-shooting the problem.
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If you output log messages to targets like disks, or tcp, which are costly in terms of write times, considered using the buffered mode of your logging software. When a certain quantity of log data is Buffered, all Buffered log data is written at once which typically saves a considerable amount of time.
Crypto Logger has full support for buffered mode and various triggers which induce flushing.
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When logging from performance-critical code, consider using the Asynchronous mode of your logging software. In Asynchronous mode, log data is Buffered and is written on a background thread so that your performance-critical code does not wait for the log data to be written.
Crypto Logger has full support for asynchronous mode.
Prepare Data To Be Logged Only If Logging Is Enabled At The Desired Level
Before formatting or otherwise preparing the data to be logged, check that logging is enabled at the desired level so that time is not wasted in the formatting/preparation of the data.
For example, instead of doing this:
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Crypto Logger comes with log method overloads which take all format parameters so that you do not have to check for level and your code remains clean and minimal.
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How to calculate the total dissipation (PT) of the uPC317?
How can I calculate the total dissipation (PT) of the uPC317?
I know that the total dissipation of a 3-terminal regulator is the sum of the dissipation between the input and output and the circuit dissipation. Can I therefore use the following equation to calculate the total dissipation of the uPC317?
|(VIN-VO): Voltage differential between input and output
|IO: Output current
|VIN: Input voltage
|Ibias: Circuit operating current
The uPC317 is different from an ordinary 3-terminal regulator in circuit configuration. Specifically, most of the circuit operating current (Ibias<1>) (shown in the block diagram) flows out from the OUTPUT pin as the output current (IO).
The rest of the circuit operating current (Ibias<2>) flows out from the ADJ pin as IADJ. Therefore, total dissipation PT is calculated as follows.
PT = (VIN - VO)•IO + VIN•IADJ, where IO includes Ibias<1>.
However, IADJ can be ignored because it is at the micro ampere (µA) level as described in the electrical specifications, and therefore, the total dissipation (PT) can be calculated by this expression.
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For many Marian University students, spring break will be more than a week off school. These students have decided to participate in Alternative Spring Break, a program that gives students the chance to serve local, national, and even international communities. This year, 36 students, faculty, and staff will travel to New Mexico, Chicago, and Nicaragua to participate in community service. Over the week, participants will engage in more than 1,500 hours of service.
Alternative Spring Break is a unique full immersion experience. Undergraduate students from across all disciplines get the chance to participate in social justice activities first hand in a new environment. During the week, students participate in a wide-range of service opportunities and learn to appreciate a new culture. They are also given opportunities to reflect on their impact and the people they are serving.
Prior to the trip, the participants spend over 400 hours total in pre-trip team formation and service.
"Alternative Spring Break serves as a vehicle for Marian University to implement its mission to educate students who will transform the world, by preparing students to understand other cultures and to be engaged with those who do not have access to essential resources," said Jeanne Grammens Hidalgo, campus ministry advisor for the trips. "It is our hope that through the experience, students will be exposed to situations that will disturb them into social action, reflecting our gospel call to be advocates for people suffering in poverty and injustice. Students have described their participation in Alternative Spring Break as life-changing. Many of the students who participate in the program go on to serve as leaders for trips in the future. "
Junior Rachel Garzon is one of the student leaders for the group traveling to Nicaragua. Although this is the first time Marian University has sent an alternative spring break group to Nicaragua, Garzon has done service there before.
"There is a joy of the people in Nicaragua that is indescribable. Many do not even have clean, accessible water to drink, yet they have a joy that's contagious. I have no doubt that the people of Nicaragua will touch the hearts of those going on the trip," Garzon says.
This year the Archdiocese of Indianapolis awarded Marian University's campus ministry with a grant that supports the international alternative break trip to Nicaragua, thus lowering the expense for students.
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- One year in the human world compares to seven years in a dog's world. While we have no idea of knowing how animals value money, if at all... 10,000 dollars for animals can go a long way.Mole Lake gave ten-thousand-dollars to the Forest County Animal Shelter. The shelter needs the money and already has plans to put it to good use. "Not only do we have to pay for their food and shelter but we also have to pay for their vet bills, to get them spayed an neutered, to get them vaccinated, things like that. So it's desperately needed," says Marin Herbert, Shelter Operations Manager.The shelter has many cats and dogs up for adoption. Fees are small and used just to cover some of the expenses of the shelter."It's a hundred and thirty dollars for a dog and sixty dollars for a cat. We're having a February special for cats. So now their adoption fee is down to thirty dollars and that just helps us to bring some money back into the shelter," say Marin Herbert.If you would like more information on adopting a pet,just follow the link.
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